偷工减料 meaning in English
use inferior materials and turn out substandard goods; cheat in work and cut down on materials; cheat on labour and materials; do shoddy work and use inferior material; jerry-build; save illegally on material and labour; scamp work and stint material; use inferior materials and do shoddy work
Examples
- Some workers did not know about scalping and faking the work .
有些工人不知道如何偷工减料。 - In justice to rushton and hunter, it must be remembered that there was a certain amount of excuse for all this driving and cheating .
应该说拉什顿和亨特之所以赶工和偷工减料确也是迫于情势。 - Then the depression had thrown almost everybody out of work and the jerry-built houses had been neglected, and as rudolph's mother complained, the entire town had become a single slum .
接着，经济萧条差不多使所有的人都失了业，那些偷工减料盖成的房子也都无人照料；正如鲁道的母亲所抱怨的那样，整个市镇简直成了一个贫民窟。 - Our client is very picky , so don ’ t cut any corners
我们的顾客很挑剔，所以别偷工减料。 - This was not built to code
这是官商勾结，偷工减料